It’s ended up on the youth channel as part of its Crime And Punishment season, perhaps because half of all the people arrested for murder in the United States are in their teens and twenties.

This film follows two young men in the days leading up to their execution.

With no narrator, they speak directly to the camera about their experiences and their regrets at their bad decisions.

“The state doesn’t care to rehabilitate me,” says Richard Cobb. “I’m an unregenerable (sic) speck of cancer that needs to be excised from humanity before I grow into something darker.”

In 2002, Cobb and a friend robbed a convenience store that led to them kidnapping three employees, shooting one dead.

Nikki Daniels, who was raped, shot, kicked and left for dead, relives her ordeal.

And one of the most disturbing aspects of this are the opening scenes in which she explains to her young daughter how the man who hurt her will be executed by lethal injection.

Like Cobb, Anthony Haynes was just 19 when he shot and killed an off-duty police officer in front of his wife.

In scenes that showcase two uniquely American preoccupations – God and guns – the entire church prays with his mother for a stay of execution. Anthony is confident that God has told him it will be granted.

Psychopath: The Widower

The Widower, ITV, 9pm

I feel sorry for any actresses who are not Sheridan Smith right now, because she’s bagging even the minor roles in ITV dramas.

Reece Shearsmith, who’s best known for his black comedies with The League Of Gentlemen and, most recently, Inside No 9, is horribly creepy as Webster – a polite, rather stuffy charmer with extravagant spending habits and a deadly need to be in control.

Claire’s death in a carefully staged car accident is horrible to witness.

Co-written by James Barton and Jeff Pope (Philomena and Appropriate Adult), this series has been made with the full co-operation and blessing of Claire’s family and also Webster’s second wife, Felicity Drumm (played here by Kate Fleetwood), who very nearly met the same fate.

Silk, BBC1, 9pm

In tonight’s third slice of justice, we ask: how many unlikely ways can this series dream up for Clive Reader and Martha Costello to share the same courtroom?

This week Martha is appealing against the extradition to the US of a young Muslim suspected of conspiring to bomb an Arizona university.

Martha believes he is innocent, but as befits Rupert Penry-Jones’ Spooks security clearance, Clive is appointed Special Counsel which means he’s the only one allowed to see top secret evidence and he’s firmly on the side of MI5. Well, he would be, wouldn’t he?

Elsewhere, Caroline Warwick, (the excellent Frances Barber) proves what a cunning operator she is when she finds herself woefully underprepared to prosecute in a sexual grooming case. Swigging from a water bottle filled with neat vodka, she’d make a hugely entertaining new Head of Chambers for Shoe Lane, so we look forward to the election.

And after Billy’s extraordinary behaviour last week when he seemed to be harassing new junior Amy is puzzling. He’s dying of cancer but has he just committed career suicide too?